ANIMAL TRIBE – Build Your Own Totem Pole!

ANIMAL TRIBE ? Build Your Own Totem Pole!

Purpose: To explore your totems and build a personal totem pole.

Objectives: To educate children about animal archetypes.

Supplies: ? A computer with internet access to the ? A browser which allows for Pop-ups ? A Word Processing Program such as Microsoft Word ? A printer ? One Empty Paper Towel roll ? Scissors ? Scotch Tape ? Colored Pencils or Thin Markers

Safety: This project requires the use of a computer and the use of scissors. Animal Tribe encourages parents and teachers to carefully monitor young children while they work on this project. Help small children with both the aspects of using the computer and proper usage of scissors.

Duration: For one child/student, 1 ? hours. For a class, depending on amount of students and available supplies, 2 hours.

Preliminary Information:

- The totem that appears at the bottom of your totem pole guides you from below and into your dreams.

- The totem that appears in the middle of your totem pole is your heart and helps you be a better friend to others.

- The totem that appears at the top of your totem pole guides you from the spirit world and protects you always.

Part One: Download Your Totem Pole Cut Outs

1) Visit the following address: totem-pole.html to open and print the "TotemPole ? CutOuts.pdf" document. (To open this file you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, visit to get a copy of the program for free.)

Part Two: Collecting your Totems 1) Create a New Folder on your computer's desktop called "Totem Pole" 2) Log onto the website. Notice the drum on the very first page. 3) Go back to your browser, and click on the drum's drumstick, once. 4) The animal that appears is the totem who appears at the bottom of your totem pole. Right-hand click on the animal card image, and choose Save As from the menu. Rename the file to "Bottom.gif" and save it to your "Totem Pole" folder on your desktop. Close the browser window. 5) Go back to your browser, and click the drum's drumstick, again, just once. 6) The next animal that appears is the totem who appears in the middle of your totem pole. Righthand click on the animal card image, and choose Save As from the menu. Rename the file to "Middle.gif" and save it to your "Totem Pole" folder on your desktop. Close the browser window. 7) Go back to your browser, and click the drum's drumstick, again, just once. 8) This last animal who appears is the totem who appears at the top of your totem pole. Right-hand click on the animal card image, and choose Save As from the menu. Rename the file to "Top.gif" and save it to your "Totem Pole" folder on your desktop. Close your browsers.

Part Three: Preparing Your Totems to Print

1) Open your word processing program and create a new document. If you are using Microsoft Word, choose Insert > Picture > From File...

2) Find your "Totem Pole" folder on your desktop and choose your "Top.gif" image. The image will appear on your page. You do not need to resize it.

Cut Straight

down

3) Press Enter or Return to go down to the next line.

4) Choose Insert > Picture > From File... and choose your "Middle.gif" image.

5) Press Enter or Return to go down to the next line.

6) Choose Insert > Picture > From File... and choose your "Bottom.gif" image.

7) Save your document by choosing File > Save As... Give it the name of "My Totem" and press the Save button.

8) Choose File> Print. A dialog box will appear. Press the Okay button. (If you experience printing problems, please refer to your printer's operational manual.)

9) When your Totem document is finished printing, using your scissors, cut down the edges of all three totem animal cards as indicated to the right.

Cut Straight Across

Part Four: Assembling Your Totem Pole

1) Cut out all the parts from the "TotemPole ? CutOuts.pdf" document that you printed first. (This document has a face and wings on it.)

2) Color in your face, wings and base cut outs with colored pencils or thin markers.

3) Now, fold the tabs of the wings back wards towards the uncolored back of the wings.

4) Taking your empty paper towel roll, tape your totems and parts in the correct positions around your roll, as indicated in the illustration to the right. Your totem pole is now complete!

Project Concept by: Ariadne Greene, Animal Tribe ?2005 Lesson Plan Written & Designed by: Kimberley Miller, BFA, Licensed All-Level Art Teacher

TOTEM POLE PARTS

Directions: Print this page on your printer. Color in each part using colored pencils or thin markers. Then cut around each of these items as closely to the outside edges of the black lines as you can, without cutting the tabs off.

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